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Adapted vs Deserving - What's the difference?

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Adapted is a related term of deserving.


As verbs the difference between adapted and deserving

is that adapted is (adapt) while deserving is .

As an adjective deserving is

worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.

As a noun deserving is

desert, merit.

adapted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (adapt)

    • adapt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
  • To change oneself so as to be adapted.
    • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Related terms

    * adaptational * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adaptability * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptional * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptorial

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    References

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    deserving

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
    • the deserving poor
  • meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)

    • Antonyms

    * undeserving

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • desert, merit
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • A person of great deservings from the republic.

    Verb

    (head)